NOTICE TO THE BAR

Supreme Court Rules Committee Reports -- Publication for Comment

The Supreme Court invites written comments on the 2002-04 reports of the Supreme Court rules committees published with this notice. In those reports, the committees (as listed below) make numerous recommendations to the Supreme Court for rule amendments and other non-rule administrative actions.

The rules committees whose reports are here published for comment are as follows:

Not all of the appendices referenced in the reports have been included in this publication; copies of omitted appendices are available on request.

The Reports of the Family Practice Committee and the Committee on Minority Concerns will be published at a later date. We also anticipate receiving Supplemental Reports from the Civil Practice Committee, the Criminal Practice Committee, and the Municipal Court Practice Committee. Those Supplemental Reports will be published at a later date as well.

Please send any comments on the Committees’ proposed rule amendments or other recommendations in writing by Monday, April 19, 2004 to:

Comments on the Committee reports and recommendations may also be submitted via Internet e-mail to the
following address: Comments.Mailbox@njcourts.gov.

The Supreme Court will not consider comments submitted anonymously. Thus, those submitting comments by mail should include their name and address (and those submitting comments by e-mail should include their name and e-mail address). However, comments submitted in response to this notice will be maintained in confidence if the author specifically requests confidentiality. In the absence of such a request, the author’s identity and his or her comments may be subject to public disclosure after the Court has acted on the Committee reports and supplemental reports.

The Court will be acting on these reports and recommendations in June 2004, with any rule amendments likely to become effective September 1, 2004.